Burton Hardware Store

Burton Hardware Store, also known as Burton Brothers Hardware Store, was a historic commercial building located at Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built about 1900, and was a two-story, roughly square, frame structure. It had a low-pitched roof and was partially sheathed in sheet metal imitations of rusticated cement blocks. The front facade featured an elaborate pressed metal cornice.[2]

Burton Hardware Store
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Site of the store
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Location	High St. and Spring Alley, Seaford, Delaware
Coordinates	38°38′29″N 75°36′39″W
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	c. 1900 (1900)
NRHP reference No.	78000927[1]
Added to NRHP	April 20, 1978

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1] It was heavily damaged by fire in 2012 and then razed.[3]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Sussex County, Delaware

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Edward F. Heite (May 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Burton Hardware Store". and Accompanying three photos
3. "Historic downtown Seaford business structure razed". delaware.newszap.com. Archived from the original on 2014-12-17. Retrieved 2014-10-09.